On 06/01/2010 10:09 AM, Dave wrote:
>> Dave,
>>
>> Fly rods and fly fishing, in one form or another, have been around
>> since ancient times. A little more recently, Dame Juliana Berners (sp?)
>> wrote one the first books on tying and fishing with flies. Course, that
>> was England, back in the middle ages... ;-)
>>
>> Mark
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> I know what you are saying, but I have looked at some of the really old
> rods in museums, and like the one I have, the older they get the less
> they look like a modern fly rod.
>
> The reel on the rod I have looks more like a modern an ice fishing reel
> to me than a fly rod reel. Also, notice that the tip hoop come out
> straight from the rod. Not exactly conducive to casting line freely
> through the guides ??
>
> Fyi, I have lineage going back to fisherman who lived on England's
> southern coast. :-)
>
> Dave
Dave,
back in the olden days, they really didn't cast their rods like their
more modern brethren. Lines back then weren't as good as the newer
ones. and were likely made of horsehair, and rather than casting they
sorta kinda used the rod like a whip, or flicked the fly/line to their
target, or just dapped the fly. That's the main reason so many of those
old rods were so long.
And reels back then were there to pretty much just hold the line. The
more modern innovations that allowed folks to fight the fish off the
reel didn't come around till the 20th century.
it was still fly fishing, though just done a wee bit differently.
Mark
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